]]>http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/28/3647770/as-wacko-birds-nest-lynch-vote.html#storylink=rss
http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/28/3647770/as-wacko-birds-nest-lynch-vote.htmlSat, 28 Mar 2015 03:00 EDTPresident Obama got it two-thirds right when he said that the delayed confirmation of his attorney general nominee, Loretta Lynch, is owing to Senate dysfunction and Republican stubbornness. He left…

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http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/27/3646332/how-congress-could-block-a-bad.htmlFri, 27 Mar 2015 03:00 EDTIt is the common temptation of Republicans and Democrats to support a strong executive when it does things they like, and to condemn it when it does things they don’t.

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http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/26/3644565/israel-has-challenge-to-remain.htmlThu, 26 Mar 2015 03:00 EDTEleven years ago, I carried my infant daughter into a synagogue basement and plunged her tiny body, head to toe, underwater. She emerged sputtering and coughing, then wailing, and the…

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http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/25/3642706/a-few-ideas-for-putting-a-woman.htmlWed, 25 Mar 2015 03:00 EDTYou may have heard that there’s a movement afoot to kick Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill and replace him with a woman. Finally, we’ve got a current event that’s…

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http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/24/3642054/dont-blame-netanyahu-for-banishing.htmlTue, 24 Mar 2015 03:00 EDTOf all the idiocies uttered in reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning election victory, none is more ubiquitous than the idea that peace prospects are now dead because Netanyahu has declared…

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http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/22/3635750/can-republicans-end-the-war-on.htmlSun, 22 Mar 2015 03:00 EDTThere were a couple of problems right off the bat when would-be Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina and the top Republican woman in the House, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, sat down…

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http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/21/3633759/new-valuable-cultural-skills-are.htmlSat, 21 Mar 2015 03:00 EDTSeveral years ago, Doug Lemov began studying videos of excellent teachers. He focused not on their big strategies but on their microgestures: How long they waited before calling on students…

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http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/20/3633447/adrift-gop-lacks-a-plan-for-running.htmlFri, 20 Mar 2015 03:00 EDTIt’s been just a few weeks since Republicans took full control of Congress, but already it is safe to say they have no earthly idea of what they want to…

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http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/19/3631593/role-of-family-structure-poverty.htmlThu, 19 Mar 2015 03:00 EDTFifty years ago this month, Democrats made a historic mistake. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, at the time a federal official, wrote a famous report in March 1965 on family breakdown among…

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http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/18/3631198/new-ferguson-shooting-wakes-up.htmlWed, 18 Mar 2015 03:00 EDTIt didn’t take long for America to assert its lesser self after two police officers were shot in what officials quickly called an ambush in Ferguson, Missouri. Social media, so…

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http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/17/3629529/oreillys-false-stories-were-fables.htmlTue, 17 Mar 2015 03:00 EDTEvery once in a while the universe arranges itself to make you look smarter than you are. Lucky me, I am having such a moment now. Last month, when NBC…

]]>http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/12/3620574/ferguson-pd-is-national-example.html#storylink=rss
http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/12/3620574/ferguson-pd-is-national-example.htmlThu, 12 Mar 2015 03:00 EDTBy now, it should come as news to no one that Ferguson, Missouri, has a lousy excuse for a police department. The behavior of many of its officers, as seen…

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http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/11/3618021/case-against-aca-subsidies-hangs.htmlWed, 11 Mar 2015 03:00 EDTThe Supreme Court, it would seem, did not want you to see what it was up to on Wednesday. The robed nine were hearing oral arguments in King v. Burwell,

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http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/10/3616244/hillary-falls-into-step-with-partys.htmlTue, 10 Mar 2015 03:00 EDTWith Jeb Bush committed and Hillary Clinton all but crowned, the easiest story to tell about 2016 is a tale of two dynasties, a Bush-Clinton grudge match, a fated collision…

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http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/08/3610817/netanyahu-visit-obscures-the-serious.htmlSun, 08 Mar 2015 04:00 EDTNow that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made his case on Iran before Congress, with all the circus atmosphere it involved, let’s get to the serious questions: What is…

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http://www.theolympian.com/2015/03/07/3609464/50-years-after-selma-a-sobering.htmlSat, 07 Mar 2015 03:00 ESTFirst, they sang “God Will Take Care of You.” Then they walked out of Brown Chapel to a playground where they organized themselves into 24 groups of 25 each and…